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While we’re in the middle of the World Series, hanging on every pitch and swing of the bat from our sporting heroes, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that superstar athletes are just like you and me: They’ve got really questionable taste in music. And, like the rest of the country, they’re inexplicably obsessed with mediocre country and hip-hop. Regardless of who wins the series itself, we thought we’d take a look at how the typical lineups of the Red Sox and the Cardinals stack up in an even more important metric: Who has the best walk-up songs?

1B

The idea of a macho slugger entering to a Drake song is pretty hilarious (crying in the rain at home plate), but “All Me” falls on the harder end of the Drake spectrum. The hook — “No help that’s all me, all me, for real” — does kind of run against the Red Sox superfriends team narrative, though.

For a first baseman who weighs in at 260 pounds, it’s not easy finding a musical counterpart of similar stature, but Rick Ross fits the bill well here on this guest-laden Ace Hook track also featuring DJ Khaled and T-Pain.

2B

Dustin Pedroia: “Still D.R.E” Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg

The creeping, sinister loop on this Dre and Snoop classic is as relentless as Pedroia’s hustle. “Still hitting them corners.” Not sure who we’d rather have coming after us, Dre and Snoop or Pedroia — that dude is intense.

Matt Carpenter: “Long Hot Summer Day” Turnpike Troubadours

This fiddle-led honky-tonk number sounds more like the theme music to walking up to the hammock for a nap, but you can’t argue with Carpenter’s numbers this year. One man’s lullaby is another’s motivation.

EDGE: Pedroia

SS

Stephen Drew: “Hillbilly Deluxe” Brooks & Dunn

This banjo-funk song is the most Stephen Drew thing we’ve ever heard, who often seems like he’s smoking a “little homegrown” of his own out there.

Pete Kozma: “Around the World” Red Hot Chili Peppers

This is a pretty ripping Peppers song, as long as you make sure to turn it off thirty seconds in — just before Anthony Kiedis’s comically inept rap-sung shtick starts. If Kozma really wanted to sell this one he’d walk out shirtless and do some karate-chop dance moves. Sounds like his work in the field Wednesday night, actually.

EDGE: Kozma

3B

Xander Bogaerts: “Beautiful” Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell

Bogaerts is from Aruba, you may have heard, which probably explains his selection of this Caribbean inflected come-on from Snoop and Pharrell. Kind of hard to not want to drop the bat and start partying whenever this one comes on, unfortunately there’s no having fun in baseball allowed.

David Freese: “Forty-six & 2” Tool

The opening riff to this Tool creeper is intense enough, and that’s before you get to the shredding chorus. “I want to know what I’ve been hiding in my shadow,” Maynard James Keenan sings, alluding to some heady philosophy —although we kind of doubt many pro ballplayers have read much Jung.

EDGE: Freese

LF

Jonny Gomes: “The Boys are Back” Dropkick Murphys

Gomes seems like he’d fit in with the Dropkicks himself, doesn’t he? Tough, over the top, kind of relentlessly in-character. How much harder can squeezing a bagpipe be than squeezing a runner? “The boys are back and they’re looking for trouble” could’ve been the theme song to the resurgent Sox season altogether. “It’s been a long time coming.”

CF

Jacoby Ellsbury: “[Expletive] in Paris” Jay Z and Kanye West

Kind of an obviously popular choice here with the “ball so hard” motif and the song’s already inescapable nature, but it makes sense from Ellsbury, the charismatic superstar fan favorite. He’s got a little of Jay’s hustle, and plenty of Ye’s shine, so it fits him well.

Jon Jay: “Born and Raised” Pitbull

Jay grew up and played college ball in Miami, so no surprise that he represents with this slow, aggressive track from fellow Dade County icon and anthropomorphic sleeveless linen suitjacket Pitbull.

EDGE: Ellsbury

RF

Shane Victorino: “Three Little Birds” Bob Marley

Easy to say “don’t worry about a thing,” after Victorino hit that grand slam against the Tigers, but before that we were worried. Very worried. The Hawaiian native strolls up to the plate on a warm island breeze with this classic (and the crowd loves it). We won’t know whether to take the message to heart until this thing’s over.

Carlos Beltran: “Welcome to the Jungle” Guns N’ Roses

Beltran’s song choice matches up with his career as well. He’s been around a long time, no one can deny how good he was in his prime, and he’s famous for his hairspray-teased hair and leather pants in the outfield. Demerits for such a cliché choice here, though.

EDGE: Victorino

C

Jarrod Saltalamacchia: “Boys ‘Round Here” Blake Shelton

No, just . . . no.

Yadier Molina: “Sigan Bailando” Wisin y Yandel

The Puerto Rican native represents his hometown with this jittery instrumental from the reggaeton/hip-hop duo with its tropical percussion and synth stabs that feel like the soundtrack to a tense murder mystery scene. Also a murder scene? The Cards’ defense on Wednesday night.